Project Manager - 6+ month Contract

Description

Project Manager (6-9 month contract)

The Forli Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that specified strategic project is executed according to plan including development of and adherence to project timelines and budgets, conformance to the Dometic Product Development Process (DPDP), status reports to key stakeholders, etc.

The scope of this project will require working within Litchfield site and travel to Forli, Italy site (international travel 50%).

Position reports to the Vice President, Aftermarket

Requirements

• Provide regular project status reports to various levels of Dometic leadership including: collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends and recommending actions.
• Coordinate both internal cross functional resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of project
• Ensure that project is delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress
• Measure and report project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure active cross functional participation, engagement, and deliverable tracking within DPDP and/or DPIP framework. 
• Ensure project and product cost targets are met

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical field or 6+ years of applicable work experience
• Experience in Marine, Automotive Products or related industry preferred.
• Experience managing international project 
• Proven experience interacting with suppliers, customers (internal and external) and Senior Management. 
• Experience with stage gate process required.
• Experience with projects of various levels of complexity (eg. white label, outsourced custom product, and manufactured product) preferred.
• Agile/SCRUM project leadership experience a plus.

Behavioral requirements:

• Detail orientated
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organization skills. 
• Skilled in Microsoft Office suite including MS Project. 
• Adept at handling multiple complex projects simultaneously under pressure to make tight deadlines
• Strong analysis with high volume of data.